A group of rangatahi from Wainuiomata have called on politicians to do more about youth vaping.
They're advocating for stronger restrictions to slow what's being called an epidemic among young people.
Street after street, shop after shop, more and more vape stores are opening all the time.
Letitia Harding from the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation told Newshub nine have opened in the past week.
"We have only 900 community pharmacies around the country - why have we got 1259 vape stores?"
And that doesn't include petrol stations and dairies.
It's perhaps not a surprise that around 20 percent of youths have vaped.
"It's just the peer pressure. As soon as they do it once, they want to do it again and over and over and over," said Potatau Clarke, member of rangatahi group The Hashtags
"There's heaps going around our communities, just every dairy there's a new vape shop and it is just not going, aye," said another member of the group, Riana Leafa-Paki.
That's why a group of Wainuiomata students, known as The Hashtags, have been advocating for change.
They spoke to Parliament's Health Select Committee on Wednesday, one year after presenting their 2500-signature petition.
"We're here now again and you're still not listening," Leafa-Paki told the Committee.
They want better, even gaining support from MPs, including newly independent MP Elizabeth Kerekere.
"Really appreciate the mahi you have done," she said about the group.
And they got support from Labour MP Stuart Nash too.
"Appreciate your submission, and I agree with it and I think we should be doing what Australia's doing," he said.
Australia has announced it will effectively ban recreational vaping.
Our Health Ministry won't go that far, but Katharine Good from Te Manatū Hauora / Ministry of Health told Newshub some restrictions are on the way.
"Further changes to existing vaping regulations were consulted on recently, and included proposals for proximity restrictions for specialist vape retailers, restricting flavour names, and additional product safety requirements."
But Harding said there's more we can do right now.
"We can ban disposable vapes, we can limit the content of nicotine in them, and we can ban specialist vape retailers close to schools and stop any more retailers from setting up," she told Newshub.
To stop a new generation from getting addicted.
